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The Anatomy of Temporal Implant Augmentation

Augmentation of the temporal region is a new area for synthetic facial implants. While every other facial implant designed is for bony augmentation, temporal implants provide enhancement of the soft tissue (muscle) region of the side of the forehead and eye. While injectable filler and fat provide a less invasive approach, they do not offer Read More…

Preoperative Implant Sizing Reduces Breast Augmentation Revisions

One issue that women gloss over in the consideration and planning of their breast augmentation is the potential need for revisional surgery. There are many reasons a breast implant revision may need to be done including infection, bleeding, implant malposition, asymmetry, capsular contracture and unhappiness with the size selection. In reading breast implant package inserts, Read More…

Safe Techniques in Injectable Rhinoplasty

Unlike many other facial plastic surgery procedures, there are few non-surgical alternatives to rhinoplasty surgery. The only way to make permanent nose shape changes is to alter the underlying bone and cartilage framework. Such alterations ultimately get reflected on the outside as the nasal skin adapts. The only non-surgical treatment option to help change the Read More…

Herbal and Supplement Medication Guidelines in Plastic Surgery

The use of dietary supplements is the norm today rather the exception. Between the use of vitamins and herbal supplements, it is estimated that nearly half of the U.S. population is partaking of these alternative or complementary oral aids. This does not take into account whatever pharmaceutical medications that they may also be ingesting. Read More…

Patient Testimonials – Shaped Breast Implant Augmentation

Shaped Breast Implants (Breast Augmentation) Thank you for doing my recent breast augmentation which was two months ago already. I was very concerned about getting breast implants and couldn’t decide which ones to get. I was afraid I might be too big and look too round and unnatural. But you took the time and introduced Read More…

Plastic Surgery Wisdom – Differing Solutions for the Same Problem

One of the great advantages of plastic surgery is the diversity of procedures that it offers for face and body changes. It can be remarkable at times how many options are available to treat one single aesthetic concern or body part. Most of the time the number of surgical options exists because the aesthetic ‘problem’ Read More…

Tummy Tucks – Different Types for Different Problems

The tummy tuck operation is one of the traditional and commonly performed body contouring procedures. It is most simplistically envisioned as the removal of loose skin and fat from the lower abdomen to create a flatter stomach albeit with the trade-off of a horizontal scar. While this is basically true there are many variations of Read More…

Plastic Surgery Product Review: Neograft Hair Restoration System

Hair transplantation is an historic procedure that is done very much today as it was decades ago. While the number of grafts transplanted in a single session has increased over the years, from a few hundred to thousands in a single session, the fundamental concept of moving individual hairs from the back or sides of Read More…

Plastic Surgery’s Did You Know? The Original Nosejob

The desire to change or make up a new nose has been around for a long time. The first recorded nose job is written in the ancient Indian Sanskrit texts around 600 BC. Doctor would reconstruct noses by taking a strip of skin from the forehead or cheeks, twisting the skin side over a Read More…

Fat Injections in the Treatment of Facial Aging

The use of one’s own fat for the correction of a variety of aesthetic and reconstructive soft tissue needs in plastic surgery is now more than just a fad. It has rapidly become an established technique even though much of the science as to how it works, and sometimes does not work, is far from Read More…